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by sphairos
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:19 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 51
Views: 5200

Re: Identity View

From the point of view of Classical Theravada the Buddha is speaking conventionally here. On the direct question of self, no-self is annihiltionism if it’s viewed in the sense of an existing Being being destroyed. The Buddha is quite clear that if Vacchagotta hadn’t been liable to such confusion, h...
by sphairos
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:00 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Kamma and intention
Replies: 31
Views: 714

Re: Kamma and intention

This is a really great illustration of why the Buddha didn't teach that there is no self. And of how the crazy mahāyāna emptiness teachings evolved via the Big Lie that he did teach it. If all dhammas are empty of a self, then a self doesn’t exist. If everything is empty of “blue” then there is no ...
by sphairos
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
Replies: 42
Views: 1099

Re: What is a dhammā exactly?

Yes, this old paper by Gethin was good. He also discusses dhammas as states or qualities at length in his main book the Buddhist path to Awakening (highly recommended). For those who don't know, Rupert Gethin is a devoted Buddhist practitioner who belongs to the English Samatha Trust . Here are two...
by sphairos
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
Replies: 42
Views: 1099

Re: What is a dhammā exactly?

Yes, this old paper by Gethin was good. He also discusses dhammas as states or qualities at length in his main book the Buddhist path to Awakening (highly recommended). For those who don't know, Rupert Gethin is a devoted Buddhist practitioner who belongs to the English Samatha Trust . Here are two ...
by sphairos
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
Replies: 45
Views: 751

Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude

The discussion of the nonchalance of the worldly attitude resulted in the very personal psychedelic wars . How ironic =)
by sphairos
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: New introduction from an old user
Replies: 10
Views: 407

Re: New introduction from an old user

Welcome! What was the topic of your PhD, if I may ask? (you can also write me in PM, if you don't want to disclose it in public) My doctoral dissertation was about heresiography in the early Purāṇas, particularly in their predictions about the Kali Yuga. These Purāṇic accounts depict Jains and Budd...
by sphairos
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:26 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena
Replies: 6
Views: 460

Re: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena

Do you mean why is it in the instrumental, as it reads oddly in English as a direct translation? If so, it's because the instrumental sometimes works that way - it's used for "filled with", for example. It has a broad use in Pali. Yes sorry, typo. It’s been a long week working :zzz: If th...
by sphairos
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena
Replies: 6
Views: 460

Re: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena

I also don't understand the question.
by sphairos
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: How do I become a nun?
Replies: 19
Views: 563

Re: How do I become a nun?

Hello, sphairos. Thank you for your kind reply. I meditate every day for 2 to 3 hours but I've never done more. I imagine if I ordain 3 hours will become 8 to 10 or something. I have more than enough time to myself actually to even do 10 hours, I am currently a student, it's just that I waste much ...
by sphairos
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Replies: 146
Views: 4347

Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol

In your initial post you state that in Buddhism there is not a Tillichean "Ground of Being", but this discussion seems to show that you actually gravitate towards such a view. -- You are looking for the Fundamental Truth and Nature of reality... I am putting together the pieces that the B...
by sphairos
Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: How do I become a nun?
Replies: 19
Views: 563

Re: How do I become a nun?

Hi, welcome to the Dhamma Wheel! I would recommend doing a 3-4 or 10 day meditation retreat first. Just to get the taste of what real meditation is. BTW, it is ironic that you chose Ambapali as a name, given your asexuality -- Ambapali was one of the most well-known courtesans (i.e., prostitutes) of...
by sphairos
Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Replies: 146
Views: 4347

Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol

Yes I am not strictly atheistic. However the Pantheistic perspective is not of the existence of 'an entity'. Unless you consider samsara and nibbana to be 'entities'. Pantheism is of an identityless metacosmic mind the body of which is reality itself. It has two functioning modes, repeated death wh...
by sphairos
Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Replies: 146
Views: 4347

Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol

And your evidence for this statement? Where in the Canon do we find the word "substance"? I forgot my own signature :jumping: :reading: By the way, I agree. There is not in the Pāli canon a word that corresponds well to a word "substance". The word substance originates with Gree...
by sphairos
Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:51 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Indra’s Pillar
Replies: 11
Views: 343

Re: Indra’s Pillar

New Concise Pali English Dictionary indakhīla masculine a post or stone set in the ground at the door of a house or palace or at the city gates against which the door or gate was closed; a threshold inda PTS Pali English Dictionary Indakhīla “Indra’s post”; the post, stake or column of Indra, at or ...